{"id":107286,"date":"2023-11-20T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/?p=107286"},"modified":"2023-11-20T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:17:12","slug":"golf-as-a-contact-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/golf-as-a-contact-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf as a contact sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the article \u201cGolf: a contact sport. Repetitive traumatic discopathy may be the driver of early lumbar degeneration in modern-era golfers\u201d published today in the <em>Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine<\/em>, Drs. Corey T. Walker, Juan S. Uribe, and Randall W. Porter from Barrow Neurological Institute describe the biomechanics of modern-era <a href=\"http:\/\/podiatryarena.com\/index.php?tags\/golf\/\">golf<\/a> and its clinical consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors point out that \u201camong professional and amateur <a href=\"https:\/\/podiapaedia.org\/wiki\/sports-medicine\/individual-sports\/golf\/\">golfers<\/a>, back disorders remain the most common injury, comprising 55% and 35% of injuries in these groups, respectively.\u201d They also note that modern professional golfers are experiencing back problems at far younger ages than the general population. To explain this, they focus on how the golf swing of present-day professionals, such as Tiger Woods, differs from that employed by golf legends Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan. &#8230; [<a href=\"https:\/\/esports-medicine.org\/2021\/04\/16\/golf-as-a-contact-sport\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podiatrybooks.co.nz\/review\/the-golf-swing-distilled\/\">The Golf Swing, Distilled<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article \u201cGolf: a contact sport. Repetitive traumatic discopathy may be the driver of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":216,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107289,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107286\/revisions\/107289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}